Re: Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 1 06:48, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This question came up on the coreutils list: > > Does cygwin provide any support for sparse files on NTFS volumes that > support it? lseek() could be patched to use FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA when a > seek jumps pa

Re: Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:48:56AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >This question came up on the coreutils list: > >Does cygwin provide any support for sparse files on NTFS volumes that >support it? lseek() could be patched to use FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA when a >seek jumps past the end of a file open for wri

Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This question came up on the coreutils list: Does cygwin provide any support for sparse files on NTFS volumes that support it? lseek() could be patched to use FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA when a seek jumps past the end of a file open for writing, but there is